If My Goal is to be Recognized by Dwarves, I Won’t Do It.

Theo stood in front of me and said,

“I already felt it when I saw the intricacy of the magic circle, but your understanding of magic is amazing.”

She started off by showering me with praise.

“So, I was thinking. If we combine my technical skills with your mana control and understanding of magic, which you showed when we developed the mana battery last time, I don’t think there’s anything we can’t create! If I support the magic circle with my technical skills, we can develop illusion magic even further!”

“It seems like you want to develop something separately.”

“My goal is to miniaturize the mana battery we created that doesn’t consume any mana and create a portable mana device! I hope you can help me with that.”

“Hmm… Is your purpose for collaboration to gain recognition from other dwarves?”

She nodded.

“If that’s the case, it might be difficult.”

“Huh? Wh-Why…?”

“Do you think they’ll acknowledge something developed with a human?”

“Ah…”

She froze for a moment with a blank voice.

“No matter what you create, you won’t be able to subdue those stubborn dwarves.”

“But I…”

She couldn’t finish her sentence and bit her lip.

The sorrow she received for being a female dwarf.

The stories she heard about being told to just do metalwork because she wouldn’t be recognized.

Perhaps the emotions she felt at that time surged up.

Her face contorted as she teared up.

I roughly knew why she wanted the recognition of other dwarves so much.

It must be to repay the humiliation she had suffered until now.

But as I said just now, if the reason is simply to gain recognition from other dwarves, I couldn’t work with her.

The moment she becomes fixated on being recognized by dwarves who won’t acknowledge her because she collaborated with a human, she will be wasting her brilliant talent.

‘But I can’t not use a skilled artisan like Theo.’

She was a more skilled artisan than any dwarf I had seen.

Just look at the mana battery she created that doesn’t consume any mana.

It’s thanks to the high-concentration mana stone I provided, but she was the only one who created a mana-consumption-free battery even with such a mana stone.

Therefore, it was necessary to instill a different goal in her.

So that she wouldn’t become fixated on a strange goal.

“I can go with you if you dream of a different reason, Theo.”

“A different reason?”

“Yes. I hope you have a different goal, not a short-sighted goal of gaining recognition from the same dwarves.”

“A different goal…”

I said to Theo, who was muttering softly.

“The best artisan, isn’t that all you need?”

“The best artisan…?”

“Is the reason you want to be recognized by other dwarves to work at the central factory of Steam-Factory?”

“That’s not it. If that were the case, I would have already achieved it.”

“How many dwarves have created a hot invention like Mana-Con that is used all over the continent in the central factory?”

“Not many, right?”

“Then you don’t need the recognition of those jealous loser dwarves anymore, do you?”

“……”

“I don’t know much about dwarf society, but I know one thing. The dwarf who creates the best invention is the best artisan.”

With just the Mana-Con she created, I thought she could stand at the level of the best artisan among dwarves.

‘She won’t admit it herself.’

It felt different to me, who had lived in modern society.

Being able to conquer the weather doesn’t just end with developing one item.

It was a great invention that could change the entire society.

That’s why Willis Carrier is still talked about even after time has passed.

Theo was the same.

Her invention was not just about making a room cool, but an invention that would soon change the atmosphere of society.

“Become the best artisan. I will collaborate with you on that condition.”

‘If she doesn’t admit it herself, I can just have her develop until she is convinced.’

That’s why I suggested a higher aspiration.

An absolute aspiration that would not be dragged down by someone’s jealousy.

“……”

She was silent for a while.

“…The best artisan, can I do it?”

There was fear in her voice.

I approached her and said,

“You can do it. I’m sure of it. Just as you were interested in my magic, I was also interested in your skills.”

“Ah.”

“If you ever doubt yourself, you can rely on me then. I think you have the qualities to become the best artisan.”

“…Thank you, human. I understand what you mean by not needing to be recognized by my own kind.”

I patted her shoulder, who nodded as if she had made up her mind.

“Hic!”

Was it because of the illusion from before?

Her body flinched and sobbed.

I pretended not to see and opened my mouth.

“Then, I look forward to working with you. Let’s try to help you become the best artisan. I will also use you a lot to develop illusion magic even further.”

“Okay! I’ll trust you, human.”

Theo, who had regained her energy, grabbed my hand.

Was it thanks to making a new resolution?

Her face was slightly more flushed than before.

 

“……”

“So, there was this dungeon I went to, and there was a trap that made you unable to move for an hour if you fell into it. You know what’s funny about it? When you fall into it, the sensation of the part that fell in is blocked. Isn’t that funny?”

Aileen watched Nikki, who was sitting in front of her and telling stories about her adventures without leaving.

Normally, Aileen would have watched the stories she told with interest, but not today.

‘When is she leaving?’

She was bored with Nikki still not going back and telling tales of the hero’s adventures.

Because she had something more important than that.

“Even if I fell into a trap, it didn’t seem fun, so I just broke it. And there are these strange plants with tentacles called obscene plants in the deep jungle where the empire’s influence doesn’t reach, and the natives of that area worship them. They even perform some kind of ritual. I should have gone to see it, but it’s a shame I couldn’t see it because of monster subjugation nearby.”

Why did Nikki’s words feel so long today?

“Have you ever been hit by a petrification curse? It hurts more than I thought. It was nice when our saintess was there because she could undo it right away…”

Nikki sighed deeply and sat next to her.

“I miss traveling with Aileen…”

“I, I can’t do that anymore.”

“Ah, that’s right. The demon king is dead, and the demon forces are gone now. There’s even less reason for the saintess to go out.”

Nikki leaned her head on Aileen’s shoulder.

“There was nothing fun that filled my heart this time either. I’m trying to find real fun by going here and there, but there’s nothing fun at all. Haa.”

Aileen looked at Nikki, who was sighing with her head on her shoulder.

She felt listless.

She was always smiling brightly, but today, her smile didn’t seem to have any strength.

Why did she feel like she was seeing her past self?

“Is that so…? Then, are you going to stay in the capital?”

“Maybe? I’m thinking of taking a break for a month while resting for the first time in a while. I’m starting to feel numb because I’ve been out for too long…”

“I, I see.”

“I’ll be our saintess’s companion! Even if you use a Word of Law on me, I can endure it.”

“…It’s, it’s okay.”

“It’s okay?”

“Yes, yes… N, Nikki, don’t overdo it too much either. You should get some rest.”

Nikki blinked and looked at Aileen.

“Aileen.”

“Yes?”

“Do you have a boyfriend?”

“……Yes?”

She felt like her heart was sinking.

From a few days ago, Aileen had been masturbating while imagining Max.

Was that all?

She not only had intercourse with the demon Max in her imagination, but also had a vulva tattooed on her lower abdomen.

She didn’t have a boyfriend, but she had been doing things that a saintess shouldn’t do.

Because of that fact, she reacted as if she really had a boyfriend.

“Why are you reacting like that?”

“Wh-What do you mean…?”

“You seem particularly flustered…”

Nikki narrowed her eyes as she stared at her.

The saintess has another man in her heart.

She couldn’t imagine what would be said if this fact spread outside.

Absolutely not.

“N, no way. How could I, a saintess, have a m, man in my heart…”

Aileen acted her best.

Of course, it was useless.

“…I see. If it’s not the saintess, then it’s not.”

It would have been more difficult if Nikki hadn’t backed down first.

“Anyway, I’ll stop here for today.”

Aileen watched Nikki get up from her seat.

“A, are you leaving?”

“Yeah. Let’s stop here for today. I think I need some time alone.”

The boredom and listlessness on her face.

Why did she keep seeing herself in that figure?

She couldn’t understand the reason.

She was the most free and energetic person.

How could she be similar to herself, who was tied to the Word of Law and couldn’t even speak properly and was trapped in the sanctuary and couldn’t go outside?

Aileen, who was watching Nikki’s incomprehensible expression, couldn’t figure out the reason even as she saw her off.

However.

‘I want to go to Max’s brother’s store.’

That’s all she thought.

 

“Hmm.”

After Theo left, I looked at the mana core she had installed, or rather, the item now called the mana battery.

“There’s definitely no loss rate. The links are properly connected, and it worked properly when I cut off the mana injection for testing.”

It was truly perfect.

She really has better skills than any dwarf.

I won’t have to worry about the illusion being cut off because I used too much mana in the future.

‘If I feel like it’s too much for me, I can block my mana and use the battery.’

If I run the magic circle while resting, it won’t collapse easily.

‘I was worried about how much I could use it because mana stones are expensive.’

-I’ll give it to you for free, human! Because we’re partners! And your help was a big part in developing this. So you don’t have to worry too much about ordering mana batteries in the future!

Thanks to Theo’s consideration, I was able to install the mana battery relatively comfortably even now that my financial situation was not good.

-I’m going to clean up my workshop at Steam-Factory. It would be better to have an office nearby to collaborate, right? It’ll be okay. Other dwarves are setting up workshops or blacksmiths in the empire anyway. I’m a dwarf wearing overalls, aren’t I?

With that, she returned to Steam-Factory.

Tia, unaware that I knew she was a woman, was trying hard to act like she was still a man.

‘Let’s keep the secret for a while.’

There would be a time to tell her soon.

I was reorganizing the magic circle, about to close up shop for the day, when.

Knock, knock, knock.

There was a knock on the door.

“Sorry, customer, but we’re closed for today…”

I went out to explain the situation, but there.

“O-oh, long time no see…”

It was Saintess Eileen, her voice barely audible.

She came inside as soon as I opened the door.

Thump.

Closing the door, she looked at me with a very flushed face.

“I, I came because I want you to re-engrave it.”

Eileen lifted her nun’s habit and revealed her lower abdomen.

There, a very faint trace of the vulva, almost completely gone, remained.

Saintess, you want me to re-engrave your vulva?

Are you out of your mind?

Will You Engrave the Sound? Will You Experience the Illusion?

I saw Saint Aileen.

The saint who came into my room and showed me her smooth lower belly and navel.

The saint who felt ashamed that her white panties were visible to me, yet didn’t lower her raised nun’s habit.

The saint who stared at me, her face flushed red.

There was a sensuality in Aileen’s expression, looking at me with a face and tone full of shyness, that I hadn’t seen before.

“Aileen, are you serious about wanting to get the vaginal tattoo again?”

“…Yes.”

“If you get caught, it won’t end with just writing a letter of apology.”

“I, I know. But…”

Aileen hesitated, moving her lips as if choosing her words, then opened her mouth.

“It was… fun. All those moments when I was nervous about getting caught… it was a big deviation for me.”

I swallowed a sigh at her words, muttered in a small voice as if a divine power was about to be activated.

For Aileen, who had always lived confined, adhering to the rules of the Order, keeping the secret of the vaginal tattoo alone must have been a tremendous thrill.

Even while trembling at the thought of getting caught, the anxious feeling of when she might be discovered would have activated dopamine in her brain.

‘Like people who get excited by exposing themselves outdoors.’

I wondered if I had given the saint an absurd fetish.

Her face, blushing yet grinning, reminded me of a pervert craving and desiring pleasure.

The saint looked up at me with a lewd expression that she should never have.

“I, is it not okay?”

“Aileen…”

“J, just once, th, this is the last time…”

“Our shop is a fantasy magic shop. We don’t offer that kind of service.”

“B, but last time…”

Why did you do it then?

That question was in her eyes.

Why did you tattoo a vaginal tattoo with magic last time, but not now?

‘I didn’t know she would be so addicted to a device made to make her feel the fantasy more enjoyable.’

It was a miscalculation.

I had tattooed the vaginal tattoo to give the repressed saint a little pleasure.

To make her feel the sensation she saw in the fantasy more intensely.

But I overlooked the fact that the vaginal tattoo on her lower abdomen would be like a drug, highly addictive, to a pure virgin who had never been exposed to any sexual desire, like a blank canvas.

“M, Brother Max…”

She had eyes that could even use divine power.

Eyes that would make me do it by force if I didn’t do as she said.

“Do you want it that badly?”

“Y, yes… I, in a way, it’s to serve the Goddess…”

Why?

Even though I didn’t ask, Aileen smiled.

“W, well, if I satisfy my sexual desire with a v, vaginal tattoo, I d, don’t have to have i, intercourse…? I can k, keep my virginity, and then… I can keep the Saint’s power.”

She would enjoy the precarious situation of tattooing a vaginal tattoo on her lower abdomen and living in the Order as a way to stay chaste by satisfying herself without having sex.

It was a ridiculous thing that an ordinary person would shout out.

And so did I.

But perhaps because her will was so strong.

Divine power was manifested by Aileen’s small voice alone.

That’s why I strangely thought that what Aileen was saying now was plausible.

‘Keeping virginity by tattooing a vaginal tattoo. It’s not wrong, though.’

When that thought crossed my mind, I realized that the thought was an ego created by the power of divine power.

“…”

“…”

I looked at Aileen.

Aileen also looked at me silently.

“…Did you use divine power?”

“O, oh? It didn’t work…?”

Her face froze with embarrassment.

“Using the Saint’s power, divine power, for personal reasons is not like a ‘Saint’.”

Was it because I didn’t call her by her name, which was what I usually called her?

Aileen looked flustered and rolled her eyes.

“Um, th, that’s…”

“To be honest, I was a little worried because I thought you were suffering from that much sexual frustration. But using the power of God to relieve sexual desire. What would the Goddess say if she saw it?”

“A, ah…”

I approached Aileen.

I grabbed the priest’s robe she had lifted with one hand, and with the other, I raised my finger and slowly circled her lower abdomen where her vaginal tattoo was.

“Hngh!”

As if extremely sensitive, Aileen twitched every time my finger brushed her lower belly.

“The other believers would be very happy to know that the Saint not only exposed her lower belly and skirt to a strange man, but also seduced him herself.”

“W, wait a minute… B, Brother Max…”

“Isn’t this what you wanted to be subjected to?”

I lightly pressed her lower abdomen.

“Hngh!!”

Aileen arched her back and trembled.

The lower abdomen I just pressed was the part where her vaginal walls were.

Her highly aroused vaginal walls met and rubbed against each other, stimulating her erogenous zone.

It was as if a penis was inside.

There were people who liked it when I touched their lower abdomen like this when doing erogenous massage.

Usually, people who are sexually frustrated or sensitive react particularly sensitively.

‘It feels like both apply.’

I watched Aileen, who was twisting her body as if trying to escape, grabbing my arm with both hands.

She reacted sensitively to every touch of my hand.

“Like this, here.”

“Hngh!”

“You said you wanted to get a tattoo here.”

“Haa, Brother, th, that’s…”

She even wiggled her butt in the direction my finger was moving.

Aileen, who was so excited that I could see her panties getting wet, looked at me with a pitiful expression.

“Ah…”

She wanted to tell me to stop, but she was afraid that divine power might be activated, so she just moved her lips.

I pressed down on her soft lower abdomen once again.

Along with a soft touch.

“Hngh!!”

Her hips heaved up and down.

I could clearly see the transparent vaginal fluid flowing down her thighs, which were exposed by lifting up her priest’s robe.

“Haa, haa.”

As if she had felt a slight orgasm, Aileen breathed heavily, barely supporting herself on my arm.

“Do you feel like repenting now?”

Aileen raised her head at my question.

She looked at me and shook her head with a faint smile.

“I, I still don’t know.”

The corners of Aileen’s mouth were raised as she answered.

You perverted, lewd saint.

“You still don’t know even after this?”

I spread my palm and pressed down on her belly again as if massaging it.

“Hngh!!! I, I don’t know. T, tell me more.”

Her body trembled, and her body, which was holding my arm with both hands, collapsed slightly.

Her trembling legs finally couldn’t control the trembling and knelt down.

“G, give your lamb a, a teaching.”

It looked as if she was praying to God.

The saint kneels and prays to a human for pleasure.

I feel like I’ve committed a blasphemy that I should never have committed.

I stroked her head.

I knew that she had lived a celibate life to the point where she could go with just this kind of massage.

I felt even more sympathy because I had seen how many people were watching her life.

I thought it was right to stop here for the sake of the saint.

She is a person who has to set an example for everyone.

The saint was the one who took the lead in upholding the Order’s doctrine of chastity.

But is it really right to stop here for Aileen’s sake?

I don’t know.

I couldn’t say that Aileen’s life as a saint was unhappy, but it didn’t seem happy.

That day I went to the Order to find Aileen.

The way she showed me while talking alone with me.

I remembered her feeling frustrated with the rules of the Order and wanting to leave herself a little more free.

How many desires has she suppressed because of the Order’s doctrine that taboos sexual desire?

That’s why she’s expressing her desires so much.

To the point where she lifts up her priest’s robe herself and exposes her lower belly and panties.

“Okay. But Aileen, you must never tell the other believers about the teachings I’m giving you this time either.”

“A, yes…”

Aileen’s face lit up at my words.

“Instead, there will be no fantasy today.”

“Wh, why?”

“If you enter the magic circle with a vaginal tattoo with mana engraved on your body, you may receive excessive shock. It’s unavoidable for the safety of the user.”

“Ah…”

Fantasy or vaginal tattoo.

I induced her to choose one of the two.

In fact, it would have been enough to tattoo the vaginal tattoo after seeing the fantasy.

‘But it seems that the problem is that she is deeply immersed in the feeling that the experience in the fantasy feels like she was actually subjected to it in reality with the vaginal tattoo that remains in reality.’

I decided to postpone using both methods at the same time for a while.

“Th, then with the vaginal tattoo…”

At Aileen’s words, I pointed to the bed.

“Lie down there.”

“Yes.”

She staggered to the bed with trembling legs and lay down.

“H, how should I do my clothes?”

“It’s more comfortable to take them off. Keep your underwear on.”

“Ah…”

I touched her lower abdomen again as she lay down comfortably.

“Ah.”

Her lower belly, which was warm and flushed, was throbbing.

How fast would her heart have to beat to be like this?

I raised my finger.

“It’s going to be a little hot.”

“…Yes.”

I placed my finger, which was shining with overflowing mana, below her navel.

Then.

“Hngh!!”

Aileen trembled again as if she was climaxing like before.

‘This is her weakness.’

It was the moment I learned a new pinpoint.

Aileen, who was dripping vaginal fluid while I was tattooing the vaginal tattoo, clenched the bed sheet with her hands and twisted her body.

“Ah, it’s beautiful… Brother Max… I l, love it so much!! Hngh!”

A vaginal tattoo with a lewd shape that could not be compared to the previous vaginal tattoo was completed.

A heart-shaped tattoo was placed on her lower abdomen like a woman’s uterus.

In the middle of the heart, I wrote Aileen’s name.

As if putting a name tag on a bitch.

While I was tattooing the vaginal tattoo, she was climaxing and liking it next to me, so I got a little fired up because of the atmosphere.

You know how it is.

If someone next to you says it’s good, you get more excited.

I wondered if I had gone a little too far.

“Ah…”

Looking at Aileen’s expression after seeing the vaginal tattoo on her lower abdomen through the mirror, she seemed satisfied enough.

“It’s the best.”

Speaking with a loosened voice and caressing her vulva, Eileen looked more like an incubus than a saint.

‘She’s like a succubus.’

The fact that her appearance, which should have been vulgar, seemed so noble and beautiful was not just because she was a saint.

“This vulva will last about two weeks.”

Eileen looked at me, her beautiful pink hair swaying.

“Really, Brother Max is the best.”

Her voice trembled with joy.

 

“Ugh, I’m bored.”

Nikki sprawled out in her house, rolling around listlessly.

“Nothing ever goes my way.”

She hadn’t achieved any of the goals she had set while adventuring, and now she was just repeating a boring daily life.

Today, too, she would start the morning bored and spend the day bored, with nothing much to do.

But she didn’t want to go on another adventure.

The monsters now were too weak to achieve her original goals.

“If I had known the world would be so boring after the Demon King died, I wouldn’t have defeated him.”

At least back then, there was the fun of fighting strong opponents.

“Boring. So boring…”

The Hero Nikki sighed deeply and headed for a large storage box in her room.

Her treasure chest.

“I guess I have to rely on these again today.”

A box full of the only hobby that comforted her.

When Nikki opened the storage box,

Various shapes of adult toys that a hero should not possess were carefully enshrined.

“What should I use today?”

Her hand reached for a nipple developer, a suction cup full of protrusions.